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Permanent is Not Forever
Remember that. Things can be permanent, but nothing’s forever. The Roman Empire was permanent. It ruled the ‘world’ for almost 1000 years (longer, if you consider the Byzantines), but it ended. Sho’ nuff, eventually the whole thing ended. The Cold War was permanent, but it ended. If you grew up, as I did, during the [...]
Aspen Live, My Thoughts on the High Altitude Fun
Aspen Live isn’t really a conference. It’s more of a gathering, and although Jim Lewi (the organizer and spiritual heart of the gathering) would love to see more people there, it’s not about growing it big or making money from it, based on what I learned this weekend. I’ll back up a step or two. [...]
Emancipate Yourself from Mental Slavery (on Pricing)
Whenever people start talking about pricing, I tend to see some folks who are in thrall to what I believe is a damaging and unproductive paradigm about pricing. It’s a worldview of win-lose, where the seller either martyrs itself for ‘the cause’ or whores itself out for an unholy buck. My assertion is that neither [...]
Unforced Error of the Almost Unbelievable Kind
First, I’d like to thank Ethan Siegel for telling this story. It takes a big person to cop to something like this, and I suspect he’s doing it because he’d like others to avoid such a terrible mistake. I don’t want anything I say to come across as a personal slam because, Lord knows, I’ve [...]
Wave Goodbye to A “Magical” Product
For the handful of non-geeks out there who care (or even know) about Google Wave, yesterday the company announced that it’s all over. The future of communication has been canceled. Here’s my own Wave experience. I saw the video in the long form. I got pretty excited about the potential. I even wangled myself an [...]
Why Yelp Needs $50 Million
There’s a story on techcrunch today that Yelp is raising $50 million, on top of the $30 million or so that they’ve already raised. Part of it, apparently, is to give current employees some liquidity from their long-held stock. Fair enough. They’ve done a great job building a product that people really like. But assume [...]
“Free” and the Insidious Influence of the Underpants Gnomes
If you’ve been reading this site for the last few days, you know that I’ve tilted a bit at the windmill that is Chris Anderson’s recent work. Specifically, I talked about the Long Tail and the danger of taking the elegant and appealing concept of the Long Tail and trying to apply it to, you [...]
The Long (But Not Necessarily So Valuable or Relevant) Tail
This is a continuation of the discussion yesterday, wherein I share some of my thoughts on the work of Chris Anderson, all the while keeping a straight face pretending that he cares what I think. Specifically, I’m going to talk about the Long Tail concept. (If this isn’t familiar to you, catch up here.) Restated, [...]
You Are Your Marketing (Because Nothing Else Works)
One of Google’s worst ideas was trying to sell traditional media. Specifically, it went into the business a while back of selling radio ad time and print ad space. I told you when they killed the print ad program, and now they’ve killed the radio program. Here’s the key (and rather poetically written) tidbit: “Like [...]
It’s Time to Stop Trying to Save Advertising
I loved this post by Larry Kramer in The Daily Beast, called “Let Newspapers Die Already.” Here’s a key snippet: “It’s one of my favorite lines in Citizen Kane, the 1941 classic about a newspaper publisher. Kane is responding to his top financial advisor who just pointed out that Kane’s newspaper empire is losing a [...]
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